Acer recently launched some updated laptops with Windows 7. For that matter, just about every laptop manufacturer out there has new laptops sporting Windows 7, but we’re going to start our coverage of mobile press releases with Acer since they were kind enough to send us the pertinent details. (Ed: This blog may be a bit long, but we’ll try to do them more…
A couple weeks ago, we posted our review of the Acer 751h. The claim to fame of the 751h is that it uses the Poulsbo chipset (US15W) with integrated GMA 500 graphics. We definitely experienced some growing pains with the 751h, in particular trying to get the integrated graphics to properly support HD video decoding required some effort. Once configured…
If you’re a regular reader of
AnandTech — and my articles in particular — you may already know that I use
speech recognition for writing the vast majority of my content. About five
years ago, after a wonderful spree of typing like a madman on an article, my
hands and fingers started going numb. Yes, I have the dreaded carpal tunnel
syndrome. I…
To review or not to review: that is the question. As you might imagine, we get a lot of press releases sent our way, along with review opportunities. As the notebook reviewer, one product category I hear about on a regular basis — from the vendors at least — is ruggedized notebooks. For example, Getac and GammaTech both sent me press releases during the past…
Many people have no desire for anything other than a moderately fast laptop — in fact, these people are certainly the majority by a huge margin. They would rather have reasonable performance and improved battery life, preferably in a package that doesn’t weigh as much as a small car. On the other hand, there are users out there who want as much performance as…
